RaMP: A Lightweight RDMA Abstraction for Loosely Coupled Applications.

RDMA can be used to implement a shared storage abstraction for distributed applications. We argue that for loosely coupled applications, such an approach is overkill. For such applications, we propose RAMP, a much lighter weight alternative. RAMP uses RDMA only to support occasional coordination operations. We use a load balancing example to show that RAMP can effectively support such applications.